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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING Proc. N. A. S. 
The third memoir, "Tables of Minor Planets," by A. O. Leuschner, A. E. Glancy, and 
S. H. Levy, and the fifth and final memoir of Volume 14, "Tables of the Bsponential 
Function," by C. E. Van Orstrand, are now in page proof and will be issued shortly, 
as will also Volume 15, "Psychological Examining in the United States Army," by 
Robert M. Yerkes. 
Volume 16, first memoir, "Lower California and its Natural Resources," by E. W. 
Nelson, and the second memoir, "Studies upon the Life Cycles of Bacteria," by F. 
Lohnis, are now in galley proof. The third memoir, "A Recalculation of Atomic 
Weights," by F. W. Clarke, is now in the hands of the printer. 
Volume VIII of the Biographical Memoirs has been completed with the publication 
of the biographies of Benjamin Osgood Peirce, and Cleveland Abbe, and the bound 
volume distributed. The following biographies forming a part of Volume IX have 
been completed and distributed: William Bullock Clark by John M. Clarke; Arnold 
Hague by Joseph P. Iddings; Eugene Waldemar Hilgard by Frederic Slate; James 
Dwight Dana by L. V. Pirsson; James Mason Crafts by Charles R. Cross; Lewis Boss 
by Benjamin Boss; and Alpheus Spring Packard by T. D. A. Cockrell. That of Charles 
Sedgwick Minot is now in page proof. 
The Report of the National Academy of Sciences has been issued and the fourth 
Annual Report of the National Research Council will be issued in separate form in a 
few days. The Proceedings have reached the third number of the sixth volume. 
Since the last meeting, two members have died. Louis V. Pirsson, elected 1913, 
died on December 8, 1919, and Horatio C. Wood, elected in 1879, died in 1919. This 
leaves an active membership of 175 members, 1 honorary member, and 31 foreign 
associates. Two foreign associates are reported dead; Gustav Retzius, elected in 1909, 
and Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, elected in 1908. The former died July 21, 1919. 
(Signed) C. G. Abbot, Home Secretary. 
Reports from Trust Fund Committees. — The following telegraphic report 
from A. A. Noyes, Chairman of the Committee on the Barnard Medal, 
was read: Committee recommends awarding Barnard Medal to AlbkrT 
BiNSTEjiN for highly original and fruitful development of the fundamental 
concepts of physics through application of mathematics. — ^A. A. Noy^s. 
The report of the Committee on the Murray Fund, singed by the 
Chairman, Wm. H. Dai^l, was presented. The Committee recommended 
the award of the Agassiz medal to Admirai, C. D. Sigsbe;k, U. S. N., 
retired, for his important contributions to oceanography, both by actual 
research, by publication of his results, and invention of new methods. 
The Directors of the WoLCOTT Gibbs Fund reported the unexpended 
income of the fund as $965.56, of which $500.00 is at present invested in 
lyiberty bonds. 
The Trustees of the Watson Fund recommended the following grants : 
No. 20. — An appropriation of $500 to John A. Mii^ler, Sproul Observatory, Swarth- 
more College, for the employment of assistance in measuring and reducing plates for 
the determination of parallaxes. This is a renewal of No. 17. 
No. 21. — A further appropriation of $250 to J. A. Parkhurst for the employment of 
assistance in measuring and reducing plates for photographic and photovisual magni- 
tudes in the north polar sequence and in the parallax field on which the Yerkes Observa- 
tory is working. 
The cash balance of the Vl^atson Fund on March 31, 1920, was $1,663.52, 
not including $1,000 accrued income invested in bonds. 
